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Nobel laureate starts tour of Central America and Yemen’s suffering is top priority
Along with three other Nobel Peace laureates, Nobel Peace laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman started today a tour of Central America.
Mrs. Karman, in a statement on her official Facebook page, stressed she will convey the suffering of Yemenis to the world’s free people, pinpointing the Houthi putschists and the military coalition led by the UAE and Saudi Arabia as the main cause of this suffering.
Four Nobel Peace Prize laureates, namely Tawakkol Karman (Yemen), Rigoberta Menchú (Guatemala), Shirin Ebadi (Iran) and Jody Williams (United States), will hold a tour of Honduras and Guatemala during the period between October 20-28 to investigate violence against women and human rights activists, the Nobel Women's Initiative said in a statement.
The group will be joined by human rights experts, journalists, philanthropists and a documentary filmmaker from the U.S., Canada, Guatemala and Honduras.
According to the Nobel Women's Initiative, they will visit two rural communities impacted by conflict over land and hear testimony from dozens of women’s organizations and Indigenous women community leaders, and also meet with national politicians and diplomats from the U.S., Canada and other countries.